| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
393 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-381) and index. |
| Summary |
Agha Shahid Ali died in 2001, mourned by myriad lovers of poetry and devoted students. This volume, his shining legacy, moves from playful early poems to themes of mourning and loss, culminating in the ghazals of Call Me Ishmael Tonight. The title poem appears in print for the first time. |
| Contents |
The Veiled Suite -- Postcard from Kashmir -- A Lost Memory of Delhi -- A Dream of Glass Bangles -- Snowmen -- Cracked Portraits -- Story of a Silence -- Prayer Rug -- The Dacca Gauzes -- The Season of the Plains -- A Monsoon Note on Old Age -- A Butcher -- The Fate of the Astrologer Sitting on the Pavement Outside the Delhi Railway Station -- After Seeing Kozintsev's King Lear in Delhi -- Chandni Chowk, Delhi -- Cremation -- In Memory of Begum Akhtar -- Homage to Faiz Ahmed Faiz -- A Wrong Turn -- Vacating an Apartment -- The Previous Occupant -- Leaving Your City -- Philadelphia, 2:00 A.M. -- The Jogger on Riverside Drive, 5:00 A.M. -- Flight from Houston in January -- Stationery -- Survivor -- I Dream It Is Afternoon When I Return to Delhi -- A Call -- The Tiger at 4:00 A.M. -- In the Mountains -- Houses -- Bell Telephone Hours -- 1. Has anyone heard from you lately? -- 2. Call long distance: the next best thing to being there -- 3. It s getting late. Do your friends know where you are? -- 4. Reach out and touch someone far away. Use your phone for all it's worth -- 5. Today, talk is cheap. Call somebody -- Advertisement (Found Poem) -- Language Games -- Poets on Bathroom Walls -- Christmas, 1980s -- An Interview with Red Riding Hood, Now No Longer Little -- The Wolf's Postscript to "Little Red Riding Hood" -- Hansel's Game -- Eurydice -- Beyond the Ash Rains -- A Rehearsal of Loss -- Crucifixion -- Leaving Sonora -- I Dream I Return to Tucson in the Monsoons -- A Nostalgist's Map of America -- In Search of Evanescence -- 1. Students of mist -- 2. It was a year of brilliant water -- 3. When on Route 80 in Ohio -- 4. Someone wants me to live -- 5. From the Faraway Nearby -- 6. In Pennsylvania seven years ago -- 7. We must always have a place -- 8. You -- 9. The way she had -- in her rushes -- of resonance -- 10. Shahid, you never -- 11. "Phil was afraid of being forgotten" -- The Keeper of the Dead Hotel -- From Another Desert -- 1. Cries Majnoon -- 2. In the grief of broken stone -- 3. Each statue will be broken -- 4. There again is memory -- 5. Cries Majnoon -- 6. His blood shines -- 7. Who now weeps -- 8. Majnoon was again sighted -- 9. Majnoon -- 10. In prison Majnoon weeps for Satan -- 11. The prisoners know they've been -- 12. Ambushed in century after century by the police of God -- 13. The dead are here. Listen to survivors -- No -- Resume -- Notes on the Sea's Existence -- Medusa -- The Youngest of the Graeae -- Desert Landscape -- I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror -- Snow on the Desert -- The Blessed Word: A Prologue -- Farewell -- I See Kashmir from New Delhi at Midnight -- The Last Saffron -- I Dream I Am the Only Passenger on Flight 423 to Srinagar -- "Some Vision of the World Cashmere" -- "Lo, A Tint Cashmere!/Lo, A Rose!" -- Ghazal -- Dear Shahid -- A Pastoral -- Return to Harmony 3 -- The Country Without a Post Office -- The Floating Post Office -- The Correspondent -- A Fate's Brief Memoir -- At the Museum -- A History of Paisley -- A Footnote to History -- Son et Lumiere at Shalimar Garden -- Ghazal -- First Day of Spring -- Ghazal -- Death Row -- The City of Daughters -- Muharram in Srinagar, 1992 -- Hans Christian Ostro -- A Villanelle -- After the August Wedding in Lahore, Pakistan -- Lenox Hill -- From Amherst to Kashmir -- 1. Karbala: A History of the "House of Sorrow" -- 2. Zainab's Lament in Damascus -- 3. Summers of Translation -- 4. Above the Cities -- 5. Memory -- 6. New Delhi Airport -- 7. Film Bbajan Found on a 78 RPM -- 8. Srinagar Airport -- 9. God -- 10. Ghalib's Ghazal -- 11. The Fourth Day -- 12. By the Waters of the Sind -- Rooms Are Never Finished -- Ghazal -- Barcelona Airport -- A Secular Comedy -- 1. Heaven -- 2. Earth -- 3. Hell -- The Nature of Temporal Order -- Ghazal -- On Hearing a Lover Not Seen for Twenty Years Has Attempted Suicide -- Suicide Note -- Ghazal -- The Purse-Seiner Atlantis -- Eleven Stars Over Andalusia -- 1. On our last evening on this land -- 2. How can I write above the clouds? -- 3. There is a sky beyond the sky for me -- 4. I am one of the kings of the end -- 5. One day I will sit on the pavement -- 6. Truth has two faces and the snow is black -- 7. Who am I after the night of the estranged? -- 8. O water, be a string to my guitar -- 9. In the exodus I love you more -- 10. I want from love only the beginning -- 11. Violins -- I Dream I Am at the Ghat of the Only World -- I Have Loved -- For You -- Of It All -- Of Fire -- Things -- Shines -- My Word -- From The Start -- Angels -- Of Water -- As Ever -- Land -- Not All, Only a Few Return -- Water -- Of Snow -- Air -- About Me -- In Marble -- Bones -- In -- Beyond English -- Of Light -- Stars -- For Time -- God -- Forever -- After You -- In Arabic -- Tonight -- Existed. |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Amerikansk poesi.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Added Title |
Collected poems |
| ISBN |
9780393068047 |
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0393068048 |
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